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Rehabilitation of mental health care users in the Eastern Cape

- Sokhela, N E

Authors: Sokhela, N E
Date: 2014
Subjects: Mental health services Mental illiness – South Africa Caregivers – Mental health
Language: English
Type: text , Lectures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/1122 , vital:30608
Description: Mental Health was controlled by the Mental Health Act which was modified from time to time. The objective of the Act was to treat, care and control. Emphasis was more in control and the protection of the public “Control” was embedded into practices used which included seclusion in single rooms to control unacceptable behaviour, use of mechanical restraints and straight jackets for destructive and violent episodes as well as large doses of tranquilizers. Large wards were used to accommodate patients. Locked doors prevented patients from visiting other wards. Carers were supplied with whistles and keys to enable them to call for help if there was violence. There were very few trained “mental nurses” supported by a high percentage of untrained carers who acted as rehabilitation staff within the wards and environment training patients on maintenance of personal hygiene, cleaning the wards, dishing food and washing dishes after meals. Non-violent patients worked at the laundry to sort dirty linen and pack clean linen. All hospitals have a farm in which vegetables were produced for the hospitals by patients and employees for feeding patients and also for sale to the open market. This enabled some patients to acquire different skills although there was no policy on rehabilitation. Mental health care was provided in mental hospitals divided according to racial groups, all of them closer to cities. Whites had rehabilitation and community services not open to other races. Family contact of most black patients was not frequent and at times not possible because these hospitals were from rural communities from where patients lived. Long-term patients lost contact with their relatives and developed institutionalisation. The lives of most patients were centered around the routine domestic work they performed. Recreation was in the form of walks within the hospital premises, sport by a few patients and staff, music and dance for those whose orientation had improved.
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Date Issued: 2014

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Tapping into the World of Terpenoids

- Oyedeji, A O

Authors: Oyedeji, A O
Date: 2014
Subjects: Terpenoids , Terpenes , Medicinal plants -- Analysis
Language: English
Type: text , Lectures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/1111 , vital:30607
Description: Terpenes are a class of secondary metabolites found in plants and insects (such as termites or swallowtail butterflies). Terpenes are strong-smelling aromatic hydrocarbon which are used by plants/ insects to protect themselves by deterring parasites. They are secondary metabolites synthesized in plants. When a hydrogen or atoms of hydrogen, are replaced by other atoms such as oxygen, in a terpene compound, the terpene becomes a terpenoid (also known as isoprenoids). Terpenoids are a large and diverse class of naturally occurring organic chemicals, derived from five-carbon isoprene units assembled and modified in thousands of ways. They are multicyclic structures that differ from one another not only in functional group but also in their basic carbon skeletons. Terpenoids are found in all classes of living things, and are the largest group of natural products.
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Date Issued: 2014

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The emerging epidemic of diabetes mellitus: a 20 year community study in former Transkei

- Blanco-Blanco, E V

Authors: Blanco-Blanco, E V
Date: 2013
Subjects: Diabetes Diabetes -- Treatment -- South Africa Diabetes -- Prevention
Language: English
Type: text , Lectures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/1100 , vital:30595
Description: This lecture intends to raise awareness on the current global epidemic of diabetes mellitus, its increasing prevalence and growing burden, as well as its socio-economic and healthcare impact. It also intended to describe the pattern of diabetes observed in the community of the former Transkei. It is also the intention to highlight possible collaborative areas to counteract the increasing burden of diabetes in South Africa and more specifically in the community around WSU.
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Date Issued: 2013

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Cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome in health transition and evidence-based medicine: a perspective from Africa

- Longo-Mbenza, B

Authors: Longo-Mbenza, B
Date: 2012
Subjects: Cardiovascular Disease Cardiovascular systems -- Diseases -- Treatment
Language: English
Type: text , Lectures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/1078 , vital:30578
Description: The Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) pandemic worldwide presents a true challenge today with a high health burden that is only expected to rise. I address the causes and prevention of CVD, as well as CVD rehabilitation and physiology. As a member of the American Heart Association and European Society of cardiology, I practice under the level of evidence and the strength of recommendation of particular treatment options, as outlined in the tables below.
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Date Issued: 2012

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Suicide - a global overview and focus on the South African situation

- Alonso-Betancourt, O

Authors: Alonso-Betancourt, O
Date: 2012
Subjects: Suicide and Epilepsy Suicide -- South Africa Suicide -- Assessment -- Prevention
Language: English
Type: text , Lectures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/1067 , vital:30560
Description: As a medical doctor you learn how to deal with death and you feel that your duty is to encourage people to fight against illness for their lives but, when you face suicide, you feel defenseless because it is the person him or herself who chooses to die. Another reason for choosing this topic is that I’m advocating the development and implementation of a Suicide Prevention Program in South Africa and this could be a good forum to talk about this important issue.
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Date Issued: 2012

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25 years of training doctors at WSU: how have we responded to the 1983 UNITRA Council Guidelines?

- Kwizera, E N

Authors: Kwizera, E N
Date: 2010
Subjects: Medical education -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Clinical medical -- Teaching and learning
Language: English
Type: text , Lectures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/801 , vital:29826
Description: More importantly, Mr VC, Sir, some relatively more recent improvisations have been in the roles I have played in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the Problem-based, and Community-based MB ChB curriculum at the then UNITRA (and now WSU) from 1989 to date4-33; particularly my successful introduction of ‘one tutor per tutorial group’ in our programme8,10,12,14. As I will elaborate in due course, one of the secrets of our success as a medical school has been the adaptation of ideas and practices from diverse parts of the world to make them fit in our settings; and needless to say, this has involved a lot of improvisation.
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Date Issued: 2010

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Revolutionary Overthrow of Constitutional Orders in Africa

- Anyangwe, Carlson

Authors: Anyangwe, Carlson
Date: 2010
Subjects: Constitutional law -- Africa Civil-military relations Coups’d’états Revolutions
Language: English
Type: text , Lectures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/823 , vital:29828
Description: The title of my Professorial Inaugural Lecture is ‘Revolutionary Overthrow of Constitutional Orders in Africa’. It is a subject at the intersection of three disciplines: jurisprudence and legal philosophy, constitutional law and power politics, and civil-military relations, i.e. military security policy which is one aspect of national security policy.2 The subject is of interest in at least four aspects: (i) it problematises the inescapable question of governance in the African continent; (ii) it challenges the democratization agenda in Africa - how does one democratize not only political governance but also the instruments of violence in the state? (iii) it challenges African constitutional lawyers and policy makers to seek a constitutional model that addresses the enduring menace of the power of the gun in African affairs and the changing role of the military in African politics; and (iv) it underscores national security and sovereignty concerns.
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Date Issued: 2010

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Towards creating a legally literate WSU community for today and tomorrow

- Mammen, Kuttickattu John

Authors: Mammen, Kuttickattu John
Date: 2010
Subjects: Legal literacy -- South Africa Law -- Literacy
Language: English
Type: text , Lectures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/790 , vital:29777
Description: Legal literacy has been gaining significance in literature in recent years as can be seen from several publications, for example, amongst others, Van Wyk (1983), White (1983), Barrell and Partington (1985), Kawatoko (1995), Andretta (2001), Fischer, Schimmel and Stellman (2003), Oosthuizen (2003), Barry (2006), Hasl-Kelchner (2006), and Schimmel and Militello (2007). In 1948, the world community spoke through the United Nations by establishing a framework for human rights awareness and protection with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). In 1987, several Commonwealth associations founded the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) to promote human rights issues. CHRI’s International Right to Information (RTI) Program focuses on monitoring and supporting the push for recognition and implementation of the right to information throughout the 53 states of the Commonwealth and the institutions of the Commonwealth itself. Generally, legal literacy efforts focus on human rights. It was originally used in a context where citizens, particularly from the marginalized or underprivileged groups, were made to know what the law had to offer them so that they could recognise and challenge injustices much more forcefully. The first step towards that knowledge of the law, which can transform people’s lives, is legal literacy. Legal literacy puts one in the driver’s seat of risk management. Generally, legal literacy efforts focus on human rights.
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Date Issued: 2010

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Towards Medical Education that is Responsive to Community Needs, while Recognising Community Assets and Capabilities

- Mfenyana, Khaya

Authors: Mfenyana, Khaya
Date: 2010
Subjects: Medical education -- South Africa Clinical medicine -- Teaching and learning Problem-based learning -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: text , Lectures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/780 , vital:29753
Description: Medical education today is under severe tension between “maintenance of standards” and “relevance to the needs of the population served”. A standard is a level of excellence and conventional schools tend to separate “standards” from “relevance” whereas innovative schools do not. This battle has been going on for sometime and in many places including South Africa. de Klerk (1979) warns that South African doctors should not allow the medical standards they have set for themselves to deteriorate because of the pragmatic problems encountered in attempting to attain the primary health care ideal. Daubenton (1990), on the other hand, states that one is excellent only if one is relevant. According to Daubenton, medical education can only be considered excellent if it is responsive and relevant to local needs.
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Date Issued: 2010

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Low-Valent Titanium Induced Carbonyl Coupling Reactions

- Jumbam, Ndze Denis

Authors: Jumbam, Ndze Denis
Date: 2009
Subjects: Carbonyl compounds -- Reactivity Carbonyl compounds
Language: English
Type: text , Lectures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/812 , vital:29827
Description: Interest in the use of low-valent titanium species as reagents in organic synthesis began with Van Tamelen and his research team in 1965, when they reported the first ever low-valent titanium-induced reductive dimerization of alcohols to give hydrocarbons [1]. In the early seventies shortly after the Van Tamelen report, the research teams of Mukaiyama,[2] Tyrlik[3] and McMurry[4] made the independent and simultaneous discovery that ketones and aldehydes undergo reductive dimerization to yield olefins on treatment with low-valent titanium reagents. Particularly McMurry and his co-workers [5,6,7] have extensively investigated this reaction, therefore this process is now generally referred to as the “McMurry reaction”.
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Date Issued: 2009

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Oesophageal Cancer in Transkei

- Stepien, Andrzej

Authors: Stepien, Andrzej
Date: 2009
Subjects: Esophagus -- Cancer -- South Africa Stomach -- Cancer Cancer -- Patients
Language: English
Type: text , Lectures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/769 , vital:29751
Description: The oesophagus is a part of the digestive canal between the pharynx and the stomach. It is about 25 cm. long in adults. From inside, it is covered by multilayered squamous epithelium, separated by a basement membrane from deeper tissues that include submucosa, muscle layer and adventitia from outside. Two functional sphincters are located at both ends of the oesophagus, and some glands are present within its wall, which lubricate the surface by its mucin product, contributing to easier swallowing. Knowledge of those structures makes an easier understanding as to the occurrence of squamous cell carcinoma developing in the oesophagus, its spread; it also helps to understand the signs and symptoms of oesophageal carcinoma.
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Date Issued: 2009

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A win-win situation in workplace participation by means of employee share ownership scheme

- Mazibuko, Noxolo Ellen

Authors: Mazibuko, Noxolo Ellen
Subjects: Employee ownership -- South Africa , Employee stock options -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: text , Lectures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21877 , vital:29797
Description: This paper outlines the concept of Employee Share Ownership Participation Schemes known as ESOPs. An ESOP is not a simple concept and briefly entails that through ESOPs shares are made available to all employees who wish to participate in company decision-making and the company helps them to obtain the shares. South African share schemes are linked to economic empowerment. Some researchers emphasize that ESOPs in particular, hold the promise that employees will develop a sense of loyalty to their company because their material interest will coincide with those of the company (Maller, 1987; and Ottinger, 2008).
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An (auto)-biographical account of nursing transformation: 1970-2018

- Ricks, Esmeralda Jennifer

Authors: Ricks, Esmeralda Jennifer
Subjects: Nursing -- Study and teaching , Nursing -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: text , An (auto)-biographical account of nursing transformation: 1970-2018 , Lectures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21055 , vital:29434
Description: This lecture provides a description of how nursing education and practice, research and technology has transformed over the past 48 years. The information provided in this lecture is based on personal experience and own research, and research of various other authors. The first part of the lecture provides an overview of the era in which I trained and is used as a benchmark to compare current day practices. The changes in nursing education and practice with regard to the Nursing Act and regulations over the past 48 years are highlighted, depicting the number of times that the different nursing acts and regulations were amended with regard to all basic nursing qualification programmes. This lecture also includes a brief discussion of the new nursing education programme that will be implemented soon, as well as its opportunities and challenges. A detailed description is provided with regard to how nursing research has evolved over the past 48 years because of the dedication and vision that nurse leaders have for the profession. A national nursing strategy has been developed to enhance collaborative, rigorous scientific enquiry that builds a significant body of knowledge in order to improve the health of the people of South Africa. It is envisaged that the research strategy will contribute significantly to directing future nursing research development in South Africa. It is evident in this lecture that the use of technology in nursing has truly evolved and can be seen as a major driver of changes in the nursing profession. There are huge shifts in how patient records are maintained, how medications are tracked and ordered, how care is passed from one provider to another, how blood and X-ray results are retrieved and how information is being accessed at the point of care in nursing. In today’s healthcare system technology is the foundation of the future. Today’s nurses must not only know how to care for patients, but how to use technology safely and appropriately in their day-to-day work. It is evident that nursing has transformed in many ways since 1970 and that nurses have always been the drivers of nursing transformation.
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